Flowers & Close-Ups

Mist-ical Garden (2nd place winner of the 2025 International Garden Photographer of the Year "Beautiful Gardens" category; IGPOTY is supported by the Great Britain's Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, London)

Dr. Seuss's Garden (3rd place winner of the 2026 International Garden Photographer of the Year "Beauty of Plants" category)

Wild Thing

Bouquet of Discarded Water Lilies

Dancing Peony

Lotus Delicacy

Luminous Peony

2 Peonies & an Iris

Argentinian Giant

Tender Peonies

Peony Triptych

At the Gardens

Orchids in the Puerto Vallarta Botanical Gardens

Dance of the Orchids

3 Orchids

Orchid Garden Party

Ornamental Oregano

Hybrid Orchid

Iris

Iris

Catci Near the Phoenix Botanical Gardens

Leaves Arranged and Photographed Just Moments Before They Blew Away

Wildflowers Shot on a Lightbox

Morning Glory

Liseanthus

Eggplant Family

Spotted Duck

Frogs on Lily Pads

Left Hand Creek

Fall at the Gardens

Ice Flowers
One January morning, I went to a local mountain creek to shoot patterns in the ice and found a partially submerged bouquet of flowers. Intrigued, I went back over the course of several days to see how they changed. In the photos below, you can see how individual flowers changed based on variations in weather conditions and time of day. In some cases, they were above the ice while in others, they were submerged. When I last saw the flowers, they had pretty much decomposed.